Peter Porter (poet)
Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a Britishbased Australian poet.
Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gallbladder in 1938. He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School and left school at eighteen to work as a trainee journalist at The CourierMail. However, he only lasted a year with the paper before he was dismissed. He emigrated to England in 1951. On the boat he met the future novelist Jill Neville. Porter was portrayed in Nevilles first book The Fall Girl . After two suicide attempts, he returned to Brisbane. Ten months later he was back in England. In 1955 he began attending meetings of The Group. It was his association with The Group that allowed him to publish his first collection in 1961.
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